Body-weight training is trending this new year and for good reason. It has a lot of factors that line up with a modern mindset: it’s free, easy to learn and quick to implement. It’s versatile, able to target different parts of the body which need improving and can (most likely) be performed from wherever you…
Forget about looking great and focus on real reasons for losing weight. Chasing an ideal body image or losing weight simply for the approaching beach season are “reasons” for losing weight, sure, but they are not much more. They let you down because they are superficial by nature: there is no such thing as an ideal…
One in three Americans will be halfway through the first week of their new year’s resolutions, many of which have to do with “becoming healthier.” And how many people will still be on track 1 month from now? 6 months? The spirit of the holiday season imbues many of us with grandiose ambitions for the…
Seasonal depression is thought to affect 10-20% of Americans Seasonal depression, seasonal affective disorder, winter fatigue, tiredness; it is a stark reality that during the winter months we are more prone to drops in mood and a dearth of energy. While many people will suffer from fatigue in the winter, for others it takes on…
Low back pain is one of the foremost afflictions of modern life. And it begins with the lumbar: by diameter, the five largest vertebrae in the human body are those of the lumbar and they are responsible for bearing the weight of the upper body. In fact, we would be fortunate if all they had…
Warming up the right way. At Hayes Family Chiropractic, we believe that exercise should be a fluid activity and this begins with the warm up. Rather than jolting your muscles into action with a quick warm up or no warm up at all, we want to focus on easing them into the swing of motion gently.…
Headaches are often a reflection of our lifestyle. Work weeks can often fall into a pattern that varies to the individual but generally sees us waking up, commuting to work where we sit for hours on end, returning home for recreation in the evening, sleeping and repeating. Within this framework, physical and mental stress is…
What does your back look like when you are driving? Most of us probably couldn’t even see a mental picture. For many people commuting is a fleeting, sub-conscious activity and, by treating it as such, we rarely give our backs the attention to detail that they deserve during the drive. To begin with, car seats…
Our problems with posture Posture is hardly provocative; mentioning the word may be enough to make people sit up straight as they read it, but the attention span soon wanes and our heads instinctively lean toward the screen, like a fly to light, setting the tone for the rest of the body to follow up…
Are you part of the growing population with a tight set of shoulders and if so what are you doing about it? Chances are your trapezius is misfiring- that is, the upper trapezius is overactive while the middle and lower parts are under-active. This kind of disparity within the same muscle is problematic because it…